26-11-2024 03:51 PM Jerusalem Timing

Israeli Embassy Blast in Delhi Hurts 2

Israeli Embassy Blast in Delhi Hurts 2

Bomb attacks targeted Israeli diplomats in Delhi and Tbilisi on Monday, with two people reportedly injured

Bomb attacks targeted Israeli diplomats in Delhi and Tbilisi on Monday, with two people reportedly injured.
 
The car which blew up in a high security area of central Delhi, a short distance from the Israeli embassy and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official residence, was badly burnt.
  
Police in the Georgian capital defused an explosive device found in the car of an Israeli embassy employee, the ex-Soviet state's interior ministry said.

Israeli embassy spokesman in New Delhi David Goldfarb said that one of the injured occupants of the car was an Israeli diplomat but declined to comment further. An Israeli security official said the diplomat was a woman. According to Ynet, initial details suggest that the injured woman is the wife of an Israeli diplomat for the Defense Ministry's mission. The explosion apparently took place after she dropped off their children at a local preschool.

New Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat told AFP that the police was examining the materials at the site and was yet to get the experts' report. He said there were no details about the condition of the two injured people but television reports said that one was in a critical condition.

The first Israeli official comment and accusation was that of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who blamed Iran for the attacks. “Iran is behind these attacks. It is the biggest exporter of terror in the world,” Netanyahu told members of his rightwing Likud party.